With continued success and the launch of her shoe collection this year, Zenday Coleman is at the top of her game. She is the December 2015 cover star for Flare magazine. Rocking a somewhat futuristic look, she is wearing MARC JACOBS RESORT 2016 black & silver dress and silver lace back platform boots with KENNETH JAY LANE & JENNIFER FISHER jewelry. In the issue, the singer/actress talks why she plays around with her beauty look, her new music, being honest and more. Continue below to read some excerpts from her interview and to see her fashion spread. For more on her feature, visit Flare.com and pick up a copy on newsstand.

“A big reason I play with beauty and hair is that it’s important to show different kinds of beauty when I’m on the red carpet. I don’t want to be just one-dimensional or relatable to one type of person. I want a different woman to be like, That’s like me! That’s like my hair! or That’s so my style! If I went out there and was just like, pretty, all the time, doing the same thing, it can be cool, but you’re also catering to one type of person, and what about all those other kinds of beautiful out there?”

On her new music:

“I’ve had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn’t allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.”

On who she is as a person:

“In the words of Tupac Shakur: I am a real model because I’m not playing a role and I’m not pretending to be some good kid that’s perfect. It just happens that I’m a good kid, and I don’t do bad stuff and I like to be positive because that’s just how I was raised. I think if I were faking it, then you would’ve seen me break character a long time ago.”